First Reply Trading in Danger

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

She listened to him and.... well he wasn't wrong light and life and all that. Family was important but he seemed to think about many mroe things. A smile on her face while she got up and walked around with a nod of her head. The temple itself if it was completely a temple... it could be some sort of hall or fortress for all they knew... but they would discover what they could. She offered the pack to him. "Better, it tastes like meat and potatos... one of the things the grand master has worked on is improving rations for the jedi and this has enough to last for a good while." She took another drink though while looking around at the stone.

"Preserving a mountain though has a tactical value as well if you can use it correctly the natural creatures keep people away from exploring... it can usually be defended better and you can set up many things if they are not able to set traps." She said the traps thing and was looking around while she set her canteen back into her hip pouch. She moved her free hand to the glow rod on her hip and adjusted it into her hand so she could look around and down the passages they could go. She was checking it in case he looked around but she checked on some of it. Allowinf the force itself to guide her when the interface was mapping some of the passages to check.

 

[Yondir Fenn]

Spoiler: Music OOC

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Follow the light. It was a statement any Jedi could make and claim to oneself no matter their order.
However, it was ever a challenge to focus on where that light led. The Jedi had to be whole of mind.
That was Yondir Fenn’s challenge. The light side was his guide but he had to maintain sharp eyes.
In the cold ruins, the Force was warm on his skin, like sunlight, or just as much a woman’s whisper.

Ikki Ike's voice was not far off from one as she gestured for Yondir to accept her ration pack.
He had brought food in truth but felt more suited to drinking than eating. Keep your energy.
It’s something a boy’s mother might have told him. “My thanks.” The pack found his hand.
Its contents found his mouth. Meat and potatoes. Beef. Maybe. Whatever it was, it was tasty.

He ate away while listening to Ikki. She was quite right; the mountain was a natural fortification.
He thought further on the nature of their location. Truthfully, he wasn’t sure what it was built for.
The pair of them had rested and got up in the direction, but it was just one that they had chosen.
One door and corridor looked the same as the other. Ultimately, Yondir was trusting in the Force.

He sensed its presence, an extension beyond them, yet it was too faint to know if light or dark.
A Jedi just as much had to be mindful of his feelings, though. For all he knew this was a castle.
Belonging to an ancient civilization; no more, with no link to the Force. Maybe I sense my heart.
Suddenly troubled, stirring in memories. This structure reminded him of a whole other temple.

No. That is home no longer, Yondir. It was a link to the past that could yet prove to be his own trap.
Moving onward, the team of two reached one end of the hall and faced a wall with only one door.
Yondir let his light shine; it was iron like the others. If this isn’t a Jedi or Sith temple...what is it for?
Eyes were open, but behind them was an ocean under moonlight. It was all he could do to stand.

He reached out, invisible hand trying to find what was behind the door to open in a moment.
“Well…” Yondir trailed off beside his companion. “A dining room? A treasure room? Theater?”
It was his attempt at humor, if stilted, without a smile on his lips. He cleared his throat then.
“Let’s see what’s behind the door.” Standing safely away, his hand motioned, and it opened.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

She looked at him eat and he seemed to be thinking more over while they moved and came into the room.. her mind racing about the possibilities that could be behind the door... he said treasure or a dining room... or it could be an old school privy... yeah this might predate refreshers struck her as they hadn't seen lights or technology.. the gates the closest... but the walls were not raw and natural they were carved and shaped to be proper for them to be able to move around. She was looking and had her light while she debated the net launcher but this close quarters and well if they were on the other side it wouldn't do much.... SHe would just have to rely on her wrist equipment.

"Treasure might be nice... it would tell us if anyone has been here possibly..." Either no one had been and found it or they had been and it was a horrible trap that was full of pain and death... she might need to really work on that whole optimistic view and stop overthinking some things when the door was opening. Her light at the ready as the casing could double as a club if she needed it to and it wouldn't shatter... her eyes adjusting when the doors opened casting down a longer hallway that split off in two directions. She moved looking at the walls and the alcoves just in case there were sensors or traps. "DOesn't look like there would be pressure plates."

 

[Yondir Fenn]

Spoiler: Music OOC

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Yondir wonders which way to go from here. Maybe a pressure plate will answer his fears.
However, Ikki spoke clear at the apparent lack of any such traps. Yet they could be near.
They had no real idea what this construction was for, this entire structure of hard stone.
Not brittle, not in the slightest; not even a little crevice; every gap filled, joined like bone.

A corridor stretched before the pair, as dark as their previous interior, with all lights off.
Yondir’s light shone once more, glowing over wall sconces that were once blazing on.
Darkness. Lifeless. This place had long since been abandoned; the rock all but dead.
The hall split at the end in two different directions. Decisions. They moved ahead.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

Ikki continued forward... she was allowing the force to guide her and letting her body respond to the feelings around. Yondir was behind her when she stopped and at the t intersection wondered which way was the better one to take. Her fingers tracing the floor when she crouched down lower and checked the floor. Using her fingers to gouge a line in the intersection pointing to the direction they would take first. "LEft?" She made it a question and the walls were smooth and almost looked completely solid... the small alcoves bare and made for hiding if you were careful enough. SHe was checking them with a flick of her eyes as she walked past them.

Taking the moment to better look around at other things here... her breathed shallow and calm when the hall came to several doors and opening the one its chamber was a stone table and mounds for seats. NOthing essential was left within while she went to the next door and it slid opened when she pushed it. MOre stairs heading downwards into a cellar like area. She shined the rod around but dind't go down marking the wall with a small marking to check it out later if they had to. The other doors were mostly the same with one opening to a kitch like area when she was checking it and they were simple enough. Ash in the stone work. "Hmmm dating it won't be as easy, we don't have a baseline when this planet was before calactic contact."

 

[Yondir Fenn]

Spoiler: Music OOC (Recurring)

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Ikki in front, Yondir took the rear, illuminating a greater section of the stone with a flashlight.
She walked with glowrod, while he moved and mused, searching the corners of the corridor.
At the intersection, he stood while she knelt, roving his torch as if it were still his saber’s light.
That weapon rested on his belt, sheathed, yet time will tell if it would need to swing as before.

Ikki spoke ‘left’. Left. The word rang in Yondir’s head. He nodded, trusting her instinct, and more.
The Jedi Master, like the Jedi Knight, was allowing herself to be guided, not by feeling, but Force.
To that end, he would trust her judgment as much as he expected her to trust his—to act as one.
They walk, Master Ike leading, though the Knight isn’t straggling; his light blazed loud as a drum.

All the while, Yondir took note of how very basic all these immediate rooms were as they passed.
‘Immediate’ as in this structure clearly went deeper as with the stairs they had uncovered earlier.
Cellar. Kitchen. Both reminiscent of a castle, a fortress. Yet so simple. So mundane. Yondir turned.
Ikki spoke of dating the stonework. She was right; it would prove difficult without point or path.

A basis to build from. As the builders built from the framework of the mountain. Yondir searched.
His flashlight shone over rock, rock, rock; metal, metal, metal—yet with only doors for the latter.
It made sense depending on how ancient this underground building was. Then again, he felt it.
That other sense, like the Force was guiding him onward, testing or taunting, both her and him.

“I think we should take the stairway.”
Yondir’s light illuminated both eyes.
His and hers as he spoke further.
“We need to go down. Deeper.”

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

SHe didn't need to look at him.. he wanted to go deeper and they could do that... thankfully for the moment there was no sounds and going into the creepy basement while not always ideal was the best way to go... when you really didn't know where anywhere else was going. She checked on some of the things that they had and the maid let her keen senses of where dust was expand outwards. "Down." She said it and nodded agreeing with him while she marked the door frame and was going back towards the stairs to head down. Leaving one of the beacons just in case in the frame to prop the door opened... elaborate trap possibly to lock them in a room..... maybe.

"Just in case." She checked it and tested it the door to make sure it wouldn't smash it or knock it away. A little more fiddling but they had trackers and a way to get back as they had been placing them around from time to time to mark the path they had taken... just needed to use a little imagination to find the path to and back.... At least they were not going to be in a whole volcano scenario. Ikki started heading down the stairs and allowed herself to take it in with the glow rod expanding outwards... illuminating the stairs as they gave way to stone and wood that showed not a cellar but more older parts of it and more open. The smell of old musk and she could see hay preserved from the cold as it went further and the air shifted making a breeze.

 

[Yondir Fenn]

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Yondir… A voice called to him from beyond the rock, beyond the ice and the earth and the water.
Do you want to go deeper..? He responded with silence, steady breath despite moving onward.
As if he was defiant, reluctant to answer the whisper of a woman, and also of his only mother.
Yondir… Master Ikki Ike checked on her equipment, her senses, but Yondir checked on others.

He grasped for the hilt at his hip, the straps of his backpack, flashlight in his grip, and his map.
It, like hers, would only get them so far, but he had to offer trust in it, so as to walk and stand.
He checked his hands, the digits, fingers and fists of a warrior, as he moved toward the dark.
Down. Ikki echoed in his head. Deep. Another woman’s voice bleeds, like the sap of tree bark.

No. You are in a forest no longer, Yondir. Jedi goes onward. Solo, yet not alone; with another.
With a Master, this Knight. I will fight. Ikki Ike had proven her best when it came to her markers.
They had a route to go back, to backtrack, even if Yondir ventured ever forward, no going back.
At least, not yet. He had a mission to accomplish, whether treasure to uncover, with his pack.

After all, if other hunters had already followed this call, they may have discovered the darkness.
Darkness, though, is all either Jedi could show for their light as they navigated down this cellar.
The scent of beasts. Musk, as faint as a dying heartbeat, but lingering. The air shifted and turned.
A draft on his skin from below, that twisted up, not down, as if the wind were trapped in an abyss.

Yondir’s torchlight set a room aglow.
A compartment with two metal doors.
Reminiscent of others, with a hay floor.
Inside was a pile of large, dusted bones.

“These are stables.”
Yondir spoke frankly.
No more? Mere cradles?
At the end, more stairs lead.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

SHe nodded in agreement and was able to see more of it. WIth a look around and checking over more of the information she should have the better chance while walking towards a corner and setting a marker but also her glowrod as she turned it on more and it brightened. It was made for emergencies and rated for space being able to be seen for incredibly large distance visually. The light illuminating the area around the room where she could look. There was nothing living or well had been in here... just hay and what looked like old water long frozen over. Her hands touching parts of the wall and the the pens as she could look around.

"It is clean... not completely sterile but cleaned. Whatever had happened here there was care to how it was being left. THey might have left for the winter if the pass down below got blocked. Being snowed in without a means to produce much food or having large stores would be more dangerous." She was looking at it and she was taking other angles that she could check around. There was a breeze so there had to be a way out at least. She was checking for it and standing there while she breathed in and out focusing on the force to guide them and Yondir was here prepared for helping with his lightsaber and light which gave more illumination.

 

[Yondir Fenn]

Spoiler: Music OOC (Recurring)

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Master Ike’s glowrod radiated, illuminating places much like the Knight’s lightsaber had earlier.
Glowing around the zone in a circumference, bathing light from the radius, the circle so round.
On the other hand, Yondir’s flashlight honed in on finer segments as shone amid a wider birth.
By the hands of the man or the woman, however, neither offered much beyond lifeless ground.

The stench of beasts still lingers… Yondir breathed in, breathed out. No. The smell isn’t so foul.
The scent was pleasant, in a sense; a welcome addition to the stale environment of bare rock.
The odor permeated after time, lingering between what infinitesimal beings made the crowd.
Insects, for one thing, darted away from either light source while both Jedi ventured beyond.

Ikki spoke of their predecessors; whether adventurers, treasure seekers, those from before.
Perhaps the builders or inheritors of this temple, castle or whatever. Indeed… And whoever…
They could as much be an unfamiliar party. Wayward explorers stumbling upon an open door.
The door the Jedi found, however, wasn’t so open. Who from where? And were they squatters?

Questions tempted the Knight further, so taken to being distracted by ongoing ponderings.
Meditations, in another breath, but ever as he walked onward. The Force is stronger beneath.
The thought gave him cause to pause. “That air…” Free fingers curled inward. “That breeze...”
A draft for a way out, perhaps, though it was icy, and deep. “Let’s see where these stairs lead.”

Yondir took the lead this time. The stairwell was not winding but straight down as light beamed.
Steps of stone, chipped if unbroken, and almost frozen to the touch as his hand touched the wall.
The air grew colder; a current that proved to be coming from below, rather than above the Jedi’s feet.
All the while, Yondir got a sensation that they weren’t alone in this place, with or without the Force’s call.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

She was still looking around taking in more of it while Yondir was searching as well. She could make out more details and interest sparked when they found more stairs leading down... but there was a breeze which was important. She was prepared for what they could find as her senses were ready and prepared... she worked to try and keep from getting to worked into it. If she was expecting a trap or attack she might take anything as it... not the smartest thing when she was pushing forward and allowing herself to breathe... she could feel Yondir leading the way and going down further they would be able to see more here. The bottom appearing when she touched it and the sound was the first thing to come to her.

"Water." The soft rushing of it when she moved and looked setting another marker but she had the lights able to check things over. The water was running through a channel that had been carved and it wasn't iced over. The breeze coming through it as she looked out the back. "It looks like it opens to the side of the mountain." Ikki wasn't in the water but she could squeeze in and check it with her small size as the light was there reflecting off of snow and ice. She crawled back out looking at where it went and it went to different channels as she listened. "There is something down there." She couldn't tell but was looking at the rest of the area.

 

[Yondir Fenn]

Spoiler: Music OOC

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The cold wind was quiet, a breeze creeping between crevices and up the steps where two Jedi trekked. Yet, it wasn’t so much the whisper of wind Yondir heard as it was water; a murmur that seemed to beckon the both of them as they traveled further.

Deeper, until the stairs led to even ground and Yondir paused to stare. The Watcher of the Wood, they called him back home, though he watched the water now, in a frozen home of someone else long, long ago.

Ikki set another marker, proving smarter each turn. If this section proved to be a dead end, perhaps blocked, they would have to go back the way they came. And there are plenty of markers to take us onward.

The Knight’s gaze ventured beyond rock and ice, roving over where his partner’s own eyes had found. A way out. The water would be cold though, if there was no path along the banks. However, an exit of which they did not have to contend with flying nightmares was ultimately their best bet.

Not yet. Whatever was down here, the Force was stronger, and Yondir was still on the search either for treasure or its other hunters. Then again, this could be just one building connected with others, perhaps an entire network of structures. Maybe…maybe we have found an entire city.

It was a working theory as Yondir turned toward Ikki. “We should discover what this ‘something’ is, but tread carefully.” He stepped forward when his flashlight danced across the walls and ceiling. No longer a circle so round, but zigzagging in an instant.

For, in that moment, something had wrapped around the Ranger’s ankle, some kind of tentacle, that just as quickly jerked him off his feet. His back hit the rock but the Knight had no time to discover his enemy. The next second saw his whole body drenched in freezing water, closing over his head, as something dragged him into the depths…

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

She was nodding and debating the best way to get through without getting soaked.. her outfit itself was pretty much waterproof it would easily repel the water and she could regulate her temperature with it but the cloak she had been given wasn't and her boots were only so good in that regard..... then as she was about to speak a tentacle came and grabbed Yondir dragging him as she looked at him go and quipped to herself. "Just had to be tentacles.... Atrisians attract those in ways you couldn't believe." She said it so she could hear it and then moved as as went to give chase after him into the hole... her eyes adjusting with the light in front of herself.

"Junko would make a wet joke right now.... so low brow." SHe moved quickly though being able to use her size and momentum as she went forward shifting inertia to launch forward faster and faster through the tunnel into a larger cistern. The waters coming out and on waterwheels that took it up to other areas of the building so that they had a central water source. A large pool that was colder as she stood up there at the tunnel and was moving to the side on the wall and finding a place she could stand and anchor herself with a cord around her hand but she was looking and searching with the light so she could fire a rope to Yondir.

 

[Yondir Fenn]

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Jedi was quick. His senses were bested by few. By friends, other Knights and Masters. By Sith too.
There were enemies in this galaxy that were no match against the agents of the Force, light or dark.
Yet, this new devilry proved to be a worthy adversary in an instant. It was quick and strong as it moved.
What was more, in that moment of pale light, Jedi hadn’t sensed its presence till it pounced like a shark.

Jerked into the water, submerged, Yondir heard the roar of his splash just before sound became distorted. Then it wasn’t hearing that the Jedi Knight focused on. In that fraction of time, it was feeling, for he was freezing. The cold soared over him, head to toe, gripping him in its fist as if to punish him for his distractions.

So close to the edge of the pool, he had reacted too late. Now the thing wrapped around both feet, squeezing, while the inky, icy deep seized his body like the wind stealing his breath. The water’s depth could not be seen, but the beast was moving quickly, dragging him beneath.

The Sephi’s core began dropping just as rapidly. He blinked, suddenly registering his setting once the initial shock wore off, and he began to thrash. The light. The light! There was no light, no flashlight, no lightsaber, nothing to illuminate either entity’s form, but the Jedi had the Force, and neither delayed.

Yondir focused in the moment, descending beneath the water’s surface while wrapping a bubble of greater power around himself; meager warmth against the storm, but it kept him awake in a frozen grave. This pool was far colder than the mountain of winter above it, however, as the Knight’s strength was put to the test.

A moan echoed below; hunger’s bellow. The monster tugged on its quarry’s legs with thunder. That was when Yondir used the momentum to roll forward. He had no desire to become this creature’s meal. Bereft of weapon, his lightsaber not modified to work underwater (something to remedy later), Yondir flashed steel.

His knife sliced across a tentacle, but it was thick. The beast screeched, its submarine scream pulsating in the deep stretching further and further away from the surface. Jedi could hold his breath—but not indefinitely.

He slashed again. The tendril released. That’s one. One leg free. Again! His blade bit into the beast’s limb. Enraged by the pain, it abruptly shifted in direction, laterally, swinging him above its body.

Frigid liquid swarmed around him, a wayward tentacle smacked into his back, and the Knight lost his grip on his knife. Fight! This sunken pit is not where you die! Yondir had the Force on his side. THE LIGHT. It burned bright.

The murky water lit up in an instant all around, bathing the pool in white light, flashing into his captor’s eyes—and revealing its twisted crown of tentacles and gaping mouth. Blinded, frightened, the creature soared forth, and Yondir discovered they were moving upwards. A moment later and they broke the surface.

Something tightened around the Knight’s waist. Something else around his legs.
He gasped for air as he was freed from the deep, the rocky ceiling above his head.
His arms were free. Yondir looked right, looked left, spotted Ikki there upon ground.
He was jerked backward while he turned. Beneath him, the monster opened its mouth.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

She could hear it first and let her eyes adjust... the dark waters sloshed at first and then it was there... thick and gleaming... with Yondir slashing at it as she debated mentally for a small heartbeat the scenarios that might be needed to face it and go through against it. HEr slicesabers in water could operate but their speeds which was essential was limited. SHe needed to be able to move while she looked over the different areas they had here. First either fight or get Yondir out.... and fight together or run but they didn't know where it all went as she lept to the water wheel and used it to go up from the water.

She moved and raised up more before she lept down.. her focus on the force and she calculated it... allowing the energy to ripple off of her body and she shouted. She had been taught by space borne manta rays who traveled through hyperspace after all.... and their means of attack was compressed acoustic kinetic energy from their vocal cords... she couldn't smash through a star destroyed but..... "Let him go." The whisper came as she spoke it and lept down. The voice reverberating into the water with energy that amplified itself traveling through to explode and send water into the air. It was almost a whisper but still coming when she impacted the body punching down towards the face with a scream that sent a pulse like a cannon.

 

[Yondir Fenn]

Spoiler: Music OOC

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Ikki’s shout bounced across the walls, skipping across the water like rocks upon a pond, and caused Yondir’s captor to growl in response. Its tendrils twisted every which way, as if the beast was maddened by the impact of whispered words whose power was beyond its roar, pounding into its form.

Hanging upside down, the Knight gritted his teeth as the tentacles coiled around his body squeezed. Nevertheless, Ikki had managed to distract the predator from its meal, and that was just the moment Yondir needed as his hand found steel.

It didn’t work underwater, but he was no longer in the abyss, and the Force was with him. It emerged in the form of a sword. His companion’s fist came in, striking against her target’s face, stealing its focus, while an emerald blade hissed from the Knight’s hilt.

It tore through both of his binds in one fell swoop. The beast screeched, wildly lashing out with a flurry of tentacles, but Yondir was already flipping through the air, and slicing. He fell downward into a crouch, landing on the creature’s skull, but not into its mouth.

Hilt held upside down, blade driving through its target’s skull, it gave a low moan. Pity instinctively washed over the Knight like water over rock, while he just as quickly shifted his blade through flesh and bone, ripping the saber away.

The creature floated for a moment, then began to sink. Yondir leapt off an instant later. He had no intention of going below again. Landing on the edge of the pool, he retracted his blade. It whirred away in a shorter, higher pitch, while the creature’s cry became a lonely echo in the murky deep. Then it faded into nothing.

“Are you okay?” Yondir immediately asked Ikki. He was less fazed about what his own fate might have been. Whatever her response, the Knight’s gaze was on the water. “Seemed an ancient being.” Alone, maybe, or planning to drag me to its children. “Now it no longer breathes.”

His tone, generally emotionless, dripped with the slightest hint of regret, and Yondir wondered if the Jedi's very presence in this ancient structure was its own disturbance in the Force. Then he felt himself shiver and moved to recover his backpack. “I need to sit for a moment.”

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

SHe was moving and kept it up as Yondir dropped down and inpaled the beast for a moment. His blade there and she moved as it jostled and seemed to be sinking. Her head nodding when he spoke as she didn't want to speak yet worried she might still have some energy compressed. Her hand coming up when se breathed in and calmed herself. "I am fine." She said it and moved towards the water grabbing the waterwheel that was broken but with the thing sinking it was going up now just with some parts cracked and broken away. She went up motioning for him and offered her hand so they could get up and out of the waters.

"Ancient being or no, it was attacking... if it could have been struck and let you go. I would have been alright with us not killing it." She nodded and was going up the waterwheel for a moment as she went to the stone to stand there looking around. She crouched down and watched the waters just in case while the thing was still sinking and there was no way to see down below the surface. She was looking at the rest of the room now and the waterwheels in the water took it up to different areas it looked like to more wheels and levels. The better means to make it go throughout the mountain if it continued all fo the time. "Impressive engineering."

 

[Yondir Fenn]

Spoiler: Music OOC

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It took some moments for Yondir to rest, having taken a seat in the cave to regain his strength. He was wet, soaked from head to toe, the freezing water from the pool dripping from his clothing. A portable heat source played its part to warm him, though he would not wait to be entirely dry before once again moving.

Regret. It flashed before his eyes the moment his blade plunged into that beast’s head. Ikki had punched it and it might have been enough to release the Jedi from its grip—but Jedi couldn’t wait. He had freed himself as soon as possible and moved to eliminate the threat against both Jedi.

Death. He knew that too. Yondir Fenn killed to protect, never murdered. Yet, might he have spared that creature? Nevertheless, the Master spoke truth: it was their attacker. So Yondir moved onward; upward, toward the ceiling where water wheels propelled level after level.

“Indeed,” he agreed at Ikki’s speech about the impressive engineering. “These builders were no simple creatures.” Neither was what I killed. “They were skilled.” The wheel system was intricate, complex if not complicated; like a maze with a clear entrance and exit, but no less mysterious in between.

So are we. It only took an instant for him to think of intelligent beings overall. “That cliff.” Standing tall, Yondir pointed above her head. “The opening is wider than the others. Wherever it leads, probably its door opens to somewhere more important than the rest.”

The Knight realized they might climb ever higher, but he wasn’t so much interested in escaping this place just yet as he was finding out what it was all about; whether there was 'treasure' or if they found those other adventurers, those explorers who served as the Jedi’s predecessors.

“You have delicate hands.” Yondir blinked at Ikki. He might have winked were he that kind of person. Yet, he wasn't silly. “But they are strong. These wheels are slick and we might slip. You climb first, Master.” Just as she did with her gadgets back at the cliffs where winter’s wind blasted at their backs. “I will follow you.” He waited for her to move.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

Was... was that a joke. SHe didn't look at him mostly hiding her face to grin to herself at the mention of her tiny hands... she was thinking about a good comeback to that but nothing came to mind at the moment. SHe looked up where he was indicating.... the larger doors would be better to get through then a small passage for the water. She looked for a way up before climbing and having to endanger messing with the system more then they had already. Ikki's hand stretching out when she found a grove in the wall and held herself there for a moment as she reached the wheel again and started going up. Catching the wall and moving off to the side to pull herself up.

She looked down at him though and motioned for him to come with. "Compliments will get you a lot... but you spend all the time behind me... might think you like a view." SHe offered a wink and smile but moved to the larger doors and pushed them open as the heavy steel on stone rebounded and echoed through the halls. She brought her glow rod up and was using it as she searched and listened for anything that might be coming. her hand going to the wall and she felt with the force while listening. The sound of water flowing through was there when you paid attention and the engineering was good as she followed it. Various rooms being able to get some when she opened small coverings.

SHe nodded to the small things but was moving as basins had braziers below for heating the water up. Simple again but showing they were practical as another room opened into a bathing area. The bottom of it she touched as it was stone but she could touch it. "THey have filters for the water.... its porous and would absorb it... likely able to clean out the dirt... with something to collect it underneath. So if they are doing this it might be filtering and recycling." Hmm she tapped her chin at the thought and there was always the chance for more before she was checking some of the other rooms. "These ones look like quarters for living."

 

[Yondir Fenn]

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Yondir nodded at Ikki’s gesture, extending her hand. Her words, however, caught him completely off guard. He didn’t know how to respond so he just stood there staring. Is this when one becomes flirtatious? He’d heard the word but rarely used it in his adventures. Or is this an attempt at becoming amusing? In the end, he was simply blinking at her, and felt fortunate that his skin tone did not cater to blushing.

Gulping, Yondir followed after her, the Master towing the Knight, and so far it had proved to be a working relationship. Partnership. The man made that clear to himself as well. He just wasn’t the type of Jedi to dance with the whims of romance, even in jest. For him, it was all about the quest. Yet, perhaps she was too young for this one nonetheless. This Jedi was in his thirties, comparatively, but in his eighties otherwise.

Yondir arrived beside her with a sigh, straightening his head on his shoulders. Her glow rod was married to his flashlight as both lights turned and curved rather than twirled or whirled. They had to tread especially carefully, if that watery beast had taught them anything of a lesson.

Beyond the large doors, into the chambers, Yondir heard the water like rain. It fell much the same way, propelled by gravity, but there was no sky, only ceiling. Jedi’s eyes drifted over braziers and basins, sconces and vases. He walked on, moved along, but he was distracted by distant thoughts.

At the baths, the Knight felt further assured that the pair of Jedi had come across more than temple ruins. Quite like a castle indeed. Stables. Baths. Pools of water for its inhabitants to last. They did not, of course, for this civilization had been lost to the gongs of time.

“Impressive,” was all the stoic said, but he meant it as expressed. In a master bedroom, he spotted a chest, closed and inconspicuous, and he was sure enough that there would be no treasure within it. Nevertheless, Yondir did not open it. Instead, he turned to the left, where the rock surrounded a fountain that flowed ever onward...

What was this? The Jedi blinked rapidly, like waking up from a deep sleep that had suddenly sprung on him. “The air is close here…” The Force was strong in this chamber as Yondir looked on. “This fortress is old, very old, full of memory and…anger…”

Ikki Ike